02/27/85 send_admin_command, sac Syntax as a command: sac {-control_args} commandline Function: sends a command line to the initializer process for execution. Arguments: commandline is the command line to be sent to the initializer. To send special characters you must enclose them (or the whole command line) in quotes. If the first character of the command is a "-" character, the "-string" control argument must be used. Control arguments: -address MAIL_ADDRESS specifies that mail sent for notifications is to be sent to the mail address specified by MAIL_ADDRESS. In most cases, the MAIL_ADDRESS can be in the form Person_id.Project or Person_id. (Type "help mail_addresses.gi" for additional information on mail address specification). -brief, -bf suppresses the printing of informational messages. -brief_query, -bfqy specifies that a brief query is to be posed before the command is executed. -long, -lg prints the messages suppressed by -brief. This is the default. -no_notify_by_message, -nntmsg specifies that the user is to receive no interactive messages concerning the execution of the command, except in the special case that -no_wait is specified and the execution of the command is denied due to lack of access. -no_query, -nqy specifies that no query is to be posed before sending the command line. This is the default. -no_wait, -nwt specifies that the command return to the listener as soon as the commandline has been sent to the initializer. -notify_by_mail, -ntmail specifies that the user is to be sent mail in the following cases: (1) -no_wait is specified, and execution of the command line is denied due to lack of access. (2) the command completes execution. By default, the mail will be sent to the destination specified in the user's mail table entry. If no destination is found there, the full User.Project specification will be used. The default may be overridden with the -address control argument. If the command is executed, the mail will contain all output produced on the error_output, user_output, and user_i/o switches during the command execution. -notify_by_message, -ntmsg specifies that the user is to receive a brief notification by interactive message in the following cases: (1) -no_wait is specified, and execution of the command line is denied due to lack of access. (2) The command completes execution. If possible, the user's mail table entry will be used to determine the delivery address. If not, the full User.Project specification will be used. The -address control argument does not apply to interactive messages. -query, -qy, -long_query, -lgqy specifies that the command line is to be displayed on the terminal and that the user is to be queried before the command line is executed. This control argument is useful for validating the effects of abbrevs and active functions. -string specifies that the rest of the command line is to be interpreted as the command to be executed, whether or not it begins with a "-". -wait WAIT_TYPE, -wt WAIT_TYPE specifies that the command must wait for a specified event before returning to the listener. WAIT_TYPE can be one of the following values: start specifies that the command is to wait for the initializer to acknowledge receipt of the command line before returning to the listener. finish specifies that the command is to wait for the inititalizer to finish execution of the command line before returning to the listener. This is the default. Access required: RW access to >sc1>admin_acs>send_admin_command.acs is required to use this command. ----------------------------------------------------------- Historical Background This edition of the Multics software materials and documentation is provided and donated to Massachusetts Institute of Technology by Group BULL including BULL HN Information Systems Inc. as a contribution to computer science knowledge. This donation is made also to give evidence of the common contributions of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Bell Laboratories, General Electric, Honeywell Information Systems Inc., Honeywell BULL Inc., Groupe BULL and BULL HN Information Systems Inc. to the development of this operating system. Multics development was initiated by Massachusetts Institute of Technology Project MAC (1963-1970), renamed the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence in the mid 1970s, under the leadership of Professor Fernando Jose Corbato. 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